Personal blog - and temporary home page until new website is finished - of writer, editor and graphic artist Christopher Mills

Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Wednesday Cover: JLA

When this issue of Justice League of America was released back in '73, I had no idea who most of the characters on the cover were. I was seven years old, and while I pretty much knew most of the members of the Justice League, I didn't know anything about their predecessors in the Justice Society, and sure as hell didn't know any of the Quality Comics characters that appeared here as the "Freedom Fighters."

What I did know was that it was a lot of cool heroes in a story that spanned three different alternate Earths, all expertly rendered by Dick Dillin. I also know that this is the book that made me a DC Comics fan, and despite my disdain for much of what's been done to many of these characters lately, I'll always love the DC superheroes best.

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Christopher Mills is a professional writer of comic books and short fiction in a variety of genres, as well as a DVD reviewer for several pop culture websites. His taste in entertainment clearly peaked when he was about 15, which certainly explains his embarrassing obsession with James Bond, hardboiled crime fiction, comic books, paperback pulps, space opera, Universal/Hammer/Toho Monsters, sword & sorcery sagas, old genre TV shows and vintage B-movies.